CFP: Teaching the City

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE

Teaching the City

The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the city in a variety of pedagogical contexts
and disciplinary perspectives-literature, women's and gender studies,
urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology,
sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and
others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis.



Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education;
defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation
of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban
education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics
and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community
and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in
literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions;
post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor;
architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public
history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and
the city.





Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey
City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments
in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to
www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.



Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University

Deadline: November 30th, 2007